Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Radcliffe students at Longfellow Hall, Radcliffe, Friday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in the second of the series of annual Winthrop Ames Memorial Lectures. Just returned from a front line tour of the Italian and French battle-fronts with a troupe including his wife, Katherine Cornell, McClintic will speak on "Theatre...
...sharp jaw jutting, his face red with wrath, rose to address his colleagues in the U.S. Senate. In his opening words there was an ominous restraint, in his tone a deadly edge. Senator Tydings, holder of the Distinguished Service Medal, the Distinguished Service Cross, grimly said he would speak "from a very slight knowledge of modern warfare...
There was another reason, too, for calling a short session-the World Security Conference at San Francisco, April 25. "It is vital," said Mr. King, "that Canada should be able to speak [there] with a clear, strong and united voice. ... It is therefore desirable that the Canadian delegation should go to San Francisco with an assurance of the widest possible measure of support from Parliament. An expression of such support will be sought...
...Picture of Dorian Gray (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Most literary classics and near-classics translate rather stodgily to the screen, no matter how faithful the adaptation. Oscar Wilde's famed and fancy morality legend is an exception. Its epigrams speak even more sharply than they read, and its dramatic essence is vividly visual. But though Writer-Director Albert Lewin, who also did The Moon and Sixpence (TIME, Oct. 19, 1942) deserves respect for a notably hard try, and though his Picture has some elegance, interest and excitement, it falls far short of what it should have been...
...race-conscious PM. Last week he quit PM to head the New York bureau and write a column for the New Dealing Negro Chicago Defender ("World's Greatest Weekly"), which already has a Japanese-American on its staff. Said Conrad: "No white paper is prepared to speak out on the Negro question. . . . There has been a conspiracy of silence. This is changing rapidly now, but I am apparently ahead of the trend...